Biedermann

in Iowa

There are 50 people with the last name "Biedermann" in Iowa.

Ranking in Iowa

Name	Rank
Biedermann	8,091

is 8,087th most common Baylor
is 8,088th most common Beacom
is 8,089th most common Bedwell
is 8,090th most common Beltman
is 8,091st most common Biedermann
is 8,092nd most common Boedeker
is 8,093rd most common Boersma
is 8,094th most common Bolson
is 8,095th most common Bosley

Meaning & History

Biedermann

German: nickname for an honest man, from a compound of Middle High German biderbe ‘honorable’ + man ‘man’. Associated with it is the surname Biedermeier (see Mayer), adopted in 1853 by a group of German humorists as the name of a fictitious writer, Gottlob Biedermeier, satirized as an unimaginative bourgeois philistine. The name came to be used to refer to the stolid style of furnishing and decoration that was popular in mid 19th-century Germany.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): surname adopted because of its honorific meaning, from modern German bieder ‘honest’, ‘upright’ + -mann ‘man’.